Stop the Pandemic: Step 1: Connect to the Problem: The COVID-19 Pandemic
Step 1: Connect, Question:
The Pandemic
Alicia Keys sings a song she wrote to praise the good work people were doing throughout this pandemic.
1.1. Introduction to Step 1: Connect, Question: The Pandemic
In Step 1, the major objective is for you to think about your connections/experiences with the pandemic and then to write down the questions you have about the pandemic and the different ways we can stop it.
Connect
Connect with social and public health problem of gun violence. Connect with other students and your teacher. Connect with the prevalence of gun violence in our society.
Question
Question the types of gun violence. Question the causes of gun violence.
Democratic and Academic Competencies
In this first step—connect with the problem, the targeted Democratic and Academic Competencies that will help you to connect with the issues related to the COVID-19 Pandemic include:
Academic Competencies to Apply in Step 1:
Academic and Content Area Vocabulary: Learn and use core academic and content area vocabulary to read about the COVID-19 Pandemic
Democratic Competencies to Apply in Step 1:
Social-Emotional Skills: Social Perspective Taking Skills: develop your first person point of view about the COVID-19 Pandemic
Identity Awareness: identify and explore whether and how the COVID-19 Pandemic has affected you, your identity, and/or your relationships with other people.
Social and Ecological Awareness: Risk and Protective Public Health Factors: begin to identify the risk and protective factors related the COVID-19 Pandemic.
1.2. Central Questions About How to Stop the Pandemic
How can we stop the pandemic?
What has science taught us so far about how to stop the pandemic?
What values are most important in guided our proposed solutions?
How can we reach out to people who do not want to get the vaccine?
1.3. The COVID-19 Basics
We have organized the "The COVID-19 Basics" into twelve topics that will give you an overall understanding of the pandemic and how it is spreading across the country and the world.
- Things You Need to Know
- Symptoms, Testing, Spread, Variants
- Preventing Being Sick, Managing Being Sick, and Coping with Stress
- Masks, Masks, Masks
- Vaccines
- Containment, Mitigation, Lockdowns, and Stay-At-Home Orders
- Schools and Childcare Programs
- Flattening the Curve
- The More Negative Impact of the Pandemic on Specific Groups of People
- Reopening the Economy
- Will There Be a Third Wave?
- Lift Every Voice Through Songs
1.4. COVID-19 Vocabulary
To support the reading, viewing, and comprehending of the articles and videos, we have created five sets of vocabulary for understanding the various Coronavirus topics.
To move from one flashcard to the next, click on the blue arrows above where it says "Choose a Study Mode". Click on the slide (not the image) to see the vocabulary term and then the definition and image. Click on "View This Set" to go to a full screen. Click on the volume symbol to hear it read to you in English.
COVID-19 Types of Coronaviruses Vocabulary
COVID-19: Spread of Disease Vocabulary
COVID-19: Transmission Vocabulary
COVID-19: Prevention Vocabulary
COVID-19: Medical Response Vocabulary
COVID-19: Master Vocabulary Set
1.5. Begin Your Project By Writing Down the Questions You Have About the Pandemic
With your Stop the Pandemic Portfolio set up (See introduction to Stop the Pandemic), you can click on Step 1: Connect to the Problem. There you can think about and write down all the questions you have about the pandemic.
1.6. Next Steps
In this first step, you have gained a basic knowledge of the concepts, the history, and the possible future trajectories of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
In Step 2, you will present your point of view about the impact of this pandemic on frontline workers, people of color, and the environment.
In Step 3, you will analyze the statistics and facts related to the pandemic.
In Step 4, you will listen to the stories of survivors and frontline workers about the pandemic and then you will share your own stories about the pandemic or stories you have heard about and which have deeply affected you.
In Step 5, you will listen to speeches and proposals advocating ways to stop the pandemic.
In Step 6, you will then develop your own proposal and deliver your speech advocating your proposals for stopping the pandemic.
In Step 7, you will listen to the speeches of your classmates and seek to take their points of view as you respond to their proposals.
Finally, in Step 8, you will coordinate and integrate these different points of view, synthesize these different proposals, and cast your votes (take a survey) where you rate the different proposals.
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Revised 3/4/2021.